deity impersonators/ musicians

Mayan

Bonampak

Late Classic- 800 A.D.

Frescos- stucco paint

significance- shows advanced capibility of mayan artists. this scene shows us some ritual aspects because they are taking on costumes of deities. int he story line of the three rooms this shows room tells the story of a young male heir asscending to the throne.

Plan of Mural Building at Bonampak

Mayan
Late Classic, c. 800 A.D.

fresco- stucco with paint.

This shows us the corbel vaulting and the plan of the three rooms at Bonampak. In addition it shows the progression of the images of the story in the three rooms

Battle Scene from Room 2

Mayan

Bonampak;
Late Classic, c. 800 A.D.

Fresco- stucco and paint

This is the battle scene in the story of the the series of murals at Bmpk. 

Drawing of from Room 2, Bonampak: Prisoners arranged in front of Ruler (left) and Battle Scene (right);

maya
Late Classic, c. 800 A.D.

fresco- stucco and paint

this shows the prisoners in front of the ruler but the captives reprepresentations are sympathetic and they are individual. This is important because it shows that they were aware that although they might have been victorious in this scene, these things varried and they too could be captives one day.

Drawings of prisoners arranged before ruler (detail, left), Room 2

Maya

Bonampak

800 AD late classic

fresco- stucco and paint

this is important because it shows us the head dresses and costumes of the elite as well as the sympathetic captives.

Bas- relif of Pacal's sarcophogus' lid

Maya

Palanque

684 AD. Late classic

Stone

He is falling down the tree that represents milkey way and he is falling into underworld which is Shibalba. WORLD TREE of twins that they had to climb down… On top is vision serpent… cross of serpand heads wi. Ceremonidal bar as in Tikal.  God K headdress. Apotheosis-bcomming a diety

Lintil 25

Maya

Yaxchitlan

Late classic725 AD

convey a special message of the re-foundation of the site. Indeed, Shield Jaguar's building programme throughout the city may have been an attempt to reinforce his lineage and his right to rulership.

Lady Xook, on the bottom right of the panel, is in the hallucinatory stage of the bloodletting ritual. She conjures before her a vision of a Teotihuacan serpent. Some scholars suggest that the serpent on this lintel, and elsewhere, are depictions of an ancestral spirit or founder of the kingdom. The identity of the figure coming out of the serpent's jaws is ambiguous. The inscription names the protagonist as Shield Jaguar II.

temple of inscriptions internior

Maya

Palanque

Late classic 650-700AD

This is the interior of the T.O.I it shows corbel vaulting.

nobles praticing autosacrifice. room three

Maya

 Bonampack

Late classic 800AD

Shows the blod letting of rulers which was important in Mayan ideology and ritual. it shows them putting this blood onto pieces of paper to be collected by the servant. blood is being drawn from their tongues.

Detail of captives on Stela 12

Mayan

iPiedras Negras .

Late Classic 795 AD

celebrates a victory by Piedras Negras over a neighboring site. It depicts a ruler of Piedras Negras presiding over the presentation of victims. The presentation of captives was clearly an important part in Classic Maya displays of political authority.

Stela 12

Maya

Piedras negras

795 A.D. late classic

celebrates a victory by Piedras Negras over a neighboring site. It depicts a ruler of Piedras Negras presiding over the presentation of victims. The presentation of captives was clearly an important part in Classic Maya displays of political authority.

Stucco at temple of inscriptions

Maya

Palanque

Late Classic 650-700 AD.

Pacal Stucco head

Maya

Palanque

650 AD late classic,

shows the individualized features of Pacal and his long face his almond eyes and his sloping nose and maize god head dress. it shows this reference to the maize god.

Ball players from Codex in the 16th century.

post- invasion by spanish codex

unkonwn site

16th cent.

perhaps an inaccurate rendering because they are not wearing yokes, but it shows that the ball was hit from the hip.

Yoke

MAYA

Veracruz

Late Classic 600-900 AD.

stone

most likely a ceremonial and not pratical rendering of a Yoke but shows the detil and elegance of a yoke. ( paraphinalia for the ballgame)

Stone hacha and ceramic vessel showing Hacha attached to Yoke.

Maya

unknown site

Late classic 600-900 AD

stone, ceramic.

shows that hacha was attached to Yoke. shows real size and decoration of a real Hacha. all paraphinalia of ballgame.

Palma on right dawing of ball player wearing hacha in center nad a stela with a beheaded ball player with severed head on the lef.

Maya

unknown sites

late classic 600-900 AD

Palma- worn at the front of the yoke in stone.

player wearing hacha- shows us the dress

severed head- serpants coming out which references the tale of the popul vuh somehow.

Relif panel from South ball court 

 Veracruz classic.

El Tajin

late classic 600-900 AD

stone

importance- the ballplayers are weating paraphinalia and getting ready for game this shows the dress of the ballplayers.

Great ballcourt of

Chitchin Iza

Mayan kind of toltec kind of not

post classic 900- 1200AD

landscape

HUGE ballcourt most likely more ceremonial than for the game regularly. Has bench that was probally used int he game.

Great Ballcourt at Chichen Itza

Maya/ toltec sort of 

Chitchen Itza

post classic 900-1200

shows the hole where ball can go to end game for automatic win

Center scene from bench relif

Maya/Toltc not really

Chichen Itza

post classic 900-1200 AD

Stone

shows the one ballplayer being sacrificed and out of his head come serpants. Shows us that int he ritual idea of the game that it involves sacrifice and this links it to the tale of the popol vuh.

Plan of El Tajin

Veracruz

El Tajin

Late classic 600-900 AD

rendering

????

South Ballcourt

Veracruz

El Tajin

late classic 600-900 AD

landscape

Ballcourt shape and layout

relief Panel from south ball court

veracruz

El Tajin

late classic 600-900

stone

shows players wearing paraphanalia, most likely

relif panel, south ball court, fig. arming for battle

Veracruz

El Tajin

600-900 AD late classic

stone

arming for battle, paraphanalia . ballgame mythology.

Relif panel with eagle warrior

 Veracruz

El Tajin

late classic 600-900 AD

stone

eagles in the game? whaaaat?

Pyramid of niches

Veracruz

El Tajin

Late classic (600-900 AD)

stone...

365 niches represening the day of the year. the number of levels is important, too. calandrics.

El Tajin building A

veracruz

El Tajin

late classic 600-900A.D.

stone

false arch at entrace to building A many frets.

model of building A

El Tajin

Building of the Columns

Veracruz

El Tajin

late classic 600-900

stone

Ruins at Xochicalco

 culture?

Xochicalco

late to early post classic 800-1000 AD

rendering

atop of an artifically leveled hill. maya and teo. influences.

Pyramid of the feathered serpant at Xochicalco

 Culture?

Xochicalco

late classic to early post classic 800-1000 AD

stone

feathered serpant iconography. person wearing headdress. The Temple of the Feathered Serpent has fine stylized depictions of that deity in a style which includes apparent influences of Teotihuacan and Maya art

Glyph from p. of feathered serpant at Xochicalco

late c to early post classic 800-1000 AD

temple of inscriptions

Maya

Palanque

650-700 AD Late classic

stone

( we've done this.)

Copan Stela C

 Mayan

Copan

711 AD Late Classic

stone

face is idealized portrait. Stela of 18 aging rabbit. carved on both sides to it faces two directions. to commemorate ruler and the ending of a calendrical cycle.

Copan structure 22

maya

copan

late classic

stone

monster mouth entrance.

Copan Maize God from structure 22

maya

copan

late classic 715 A.D.

stone

The Maize God, with his vibrant, youthful features, represents the Maya ideal of beauty, and features prominently in Maya art during the Classic period (200 BC - AD 900). He personifies the agricultural cycle and is associated with abundance and prosperity. In this sculpture his headdress is a stylized ear of corn and his hair, the silk of the cob.

Maize has an important role in Maya creation myths. According to the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Quiché Maya, the gods created humans out of yellow and white corn, following unsuccessful attempts with mud and wood.

The main characters of this early colonial text are the hero twins and their father Hun Hunahpu, the Maize God. The events related in the Popol Vuh are also represented in the ceramics and other media from the Classic period.

Many similar busts were used as architectural embellishments on Structure 22 at Copán. Rather than being fashioned from a single block of limestone, the heads were sculpted separately from the torsos, and close inspection of this well-known version reveals differences in colour, graining and surface texture. The head is also disproportionately large compared with the narrow shoulders and slender torso.

This disparity may have been intentional or might indicate that this particular head and torso were not originally meant to fit together but were 'restored' in the late nineteenth century.

Xpuhil

in the Rio bec style

Tikal temple

Late classic 700 AD

South mural in building A

Cacaxtla

late classic/epiclassic 800-1000AD

Cacxtla building A

North mural

800-1000 ( epiclassic) AD

Battle mural at Cacxtla

late classic-epiclassic 800-1000AD

Chichen Itza

temple of warriors

epiclassic/ e. postclassic 900-1200 AD

Chichen Itza

Serpent columns at temple of warriors

epiclassic/ e. postclassic 900-1200 AD

Chichen Itza

Chac Mool @ temple of the warrior

epicasslic/e.postclassic 900-1200 AD

Tula structure B

epiclassic/postclassic

900-1500 AD

Tula plan of structure B

Epiclassic / E. postclassic 900-1150 AD

Tula Structure B Atlanten columns

Epiclassic/e.postlcassic 900-1150 AD

Tula structure B atlanten column figure detail

epiclassic e.postclassic 900-1500AD

Tula structure b

Animal relif carvings

Tula structure B

Epiclassic 900-1500 AD

Tikal stela 1

early classic

400 A.D.

El Tajin

entrance to building A

600-900 A.D.  ( vera cruz) Late classic

Chichen Itza

900-1200 AD

bench relief

Uxmal nunnery west building

detail

Tika Stela 1 detail of ceremonial bar

early classic 400 AD

Tikal

Leiden plaque

early classic

320 A.D.

Tikal

stela 31

Early classic

445 A.D.

Tikal

Teotuhuacan diety

Early classic

300-600 A.D

Palanque oval rubbing

palace wall

late classic 650 A.D

Palanque palace

late classic

600-900 A.D

Jade plaque showing hand gesture of ruler

Palanque ?

Late classic

600-900 A.D.